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From: hrlaser@pnet02.CTS.COM (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 520 video adapter (sales flyer goofs, really)
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 15:55:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 15:55:40 1987
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bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>
>If I'd believed Commodore sales flyers I'd know that the Amiga can control
>"up to 50 overlapping windows"
>       ^^
>Who needs Jack Trameil (sp?) to spread mis-information when you can just
>use Commodore advertising? :-) :-)
>In case you don't get it... the Amiga can control as many windows as you

There's an Amiga retailer in Los Angeles, name of "S.O.S. Computers" who
frequently runs an ad in the L.A. Times Saturday Sports Section (chock
full-o-computer-ads) which says something to the effect of "[The Amiga]
can run up to FOUR programs at the same time."

Although this text is accompanied by clip art supplied by CBM, I'm
fairly sure the text came out of S.O.S. themselves. I haven't talked
to S.O.S. and have no idea how they came up with the number "FOUR" 
as Amiga's multitasking limit but I wish they'd cut it the hell out.
It's stuff like this that can be imbedded in the brain of a potential
new Amiga owner, and foister the creation of yet another 'urban myth.'

Harv
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